Charter surreptitiously dropped their dialup service and now offer cable only. Previously the dial up allowed a connection away from home. Alas it is no more.
The price is the same but the service is diminished. When you have a monopoly you can screw your customers at will.
What I liked about Joi was it had no banner junk to deal with. I connected, got a good V92 connection (better than V90) and had no spam (banner ad) to deal with.
Of course, being on a budget, the price was incredible too at only $7.99 a month (prepaid).
Dang it, I hate changing email addresses... makes it hard for ole JimRob to send me those daily question on who to zot each day.
(j/k)